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Show 'Gone With Wind' Quickie Compared to The Miracle' iht was allowed first to appear at the tawdry tart In "Baby Face. The picture proved a hooker, for' the purists, and it was plain that Miss Stanwyck would not be readily read-ily accepted on the high spiritual plane of "The Miracle." So sweet-faced sweet-faced Marian Marsh succeeded ber in the ballyhoo spotlight, and Jean Mulr Biade her. bow after .that Josephine Hutchinson was the next official choice,. during, a brief flurry of preparation for making the picture, but it was shelved again and she made way for Bette Davis. By PALL HARRISON HOLLYWOOD It seems a long, long time since a man named David Da-vid Selznick bought a story called "Gone With the Wind" and declared de-clared he'd make it into a movie. Compared with some other enterprises, enter-prises, though, about which less was said, this picture Is practically practi-cally a quickie. After all, only three years, four months and 15 days will have elapsed between book purchase and premiere; and actual production produc-tion required considerably less than a year. For contrast consider con-sider that Warner Brothers have been scheduling "The Miracle" since 1926, or that "Ben Hur" was in front of the cameras more than two years. And look at any Chaplin Chap-lin picture, or any animated feature fea-ture by Walt Disney. But of all the entries In Hollywood's Holly-wood's slow-motion marathan, none has lagged and spurted, dosed and spouted, like the poor old morality play, "The Miracle." All In all, more words have been neaped on the subject than were written ' about "Gone With the Wind," and all the actresses nominated nomi-nated for the role of the nun members of the Scarlett O'Hara club. Max Relnhardf, who had produced pro-duced "The Miracle" in London in 1911, revived it on a grand scale in New York in 1924, and Warners pegged it rtgkt away as material for an epic in celluloid. It seemed particularly suitable because, as staged, everything was In pantomime. panto-mime. But there was a long delay while the studio cleared its world title to the property, and by that time talkies were being born and all pictures had to have dialogue. So a script was written and casting cast-ing began. Loretta Young was the first formally -announced choice as the nun, but something happened to delay production, and soon afterward Miss Young left the lot. Sometimes, at the last minute. It would be decided that a new script was required. Or the budget would have to be revised. re-vised. Or Reinhardt suddenly would become unavailable. Next assignment of the starring role went to Barbara Stanwyck. Through some oversight however, |